The bar chart below shows estimated world illiteracy rates by region and by gender for the last year.Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart depicts the figure for illiteracy for both

men

and

women

in six different parts of the world

last

year. It is evident that the majority of

women

are illiterate

while

men

's

percentage

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percentages

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are comparatively lower.   


To begin

with, as is shown, the highest illiteracy rate was in South Asia with 55 per

cent

for females and 35 per

cent

for males;

also

, the figure for

women

was higher than

men

's in the Arab States with a gap of around 32 per

cent

. 

On the contrary

, the figure for the lowest illiteracy rate was in the developed nations with only 1 to 2 per

cent

for both genders. It is interesting to note that the rate difference in Latin American and Caribbean regions was very close with about 2 per

cent

in both sexes.  


Overall

, we can tell from the bar graph that education for

women

is not

so

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valued as for

men

in six areas of the globe.